 We are stung by the desire for new thought ; but when we receive a new thought it is only the old thought with a new face, and though we make it our own we instantly crave another ; we are not. really enriched. For the truth was in us before it was reflected...  Essays: First Series - Página 310por Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1852 - 333 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | 1903 - 668 páginas
...worshiped are documents of character," and the world is the same now as in the past. Emerson says: "God offers to every mind its choice between truth...Take which you please ; you can never have both." He who wishes repose will take the course which attracts the loudest applause ; the most substantial... | |
 | Sheldon Leavitt - 1903 - 262 páginas
...channels. Happy is he who can keep his mental powers in a state of plasticity and his thoughts limpid. " God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please—you can never have both. Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates. He in whom the love... | |
 | Horatio Willis Dresser - 1903 - 468 páginas
...view that this seems inconsistent. We must be ready to move forward in order to retain what we have. " God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take what you please — you can never have both." "Men walk as prophecies of the next age." It is what... | |
 | 1912 - 214 páginas
...at the outset in a quotation from K.oaa. Emerson's essay on Intellect : the passage which begins " God offers to every mind its choice between truth...Take which you please — you can never have both. . . ." And so Jacob, the truth-seeker, wanders blind and unheroic through life, striving to relate... | |
 | 1904 - 214 páginas
...corrects thy error is as consistent with freedom as it is to persist in thy error. NOVEMBER 14. Morning. God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please, — you cannot have both. — Emerson. Evening. Do not covet that which it is not lawful for thee to have.... | |
 | Edward Howard Griggs - 1905 - 76 páginas
...N. Williamson, Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Thomas Carlyle. 2 vols. WH Allen XI. EMERSON. " God offers to every mind its choice between truth...party he meets, — most likely his father's. He gets rest, commodity and reputation; but he shuts the door of truth. He in whom the love of truth predominates... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1905 - 138 páginas
...the great and tender heart in thee craveth, shall lock thee in his embrace. THE OVER-SOUL MAY SECOND God offers to every mind its choice between truth...both. Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates. INTELLECT MAY THIRD Eat thou the bread which men refuse ; Flee from the goods which from thee flee... | |
 | Maria Theresa Villiers Earle - 1906 - 412 páginas
...yawn ; at other times he would be moved to tears by a street organ.' How many people are like that 1 God offers to every mind its choice between truth...party he meets — most likely his father's. He gets rest, commodity, and reputation, but he shuts the door of truth. He in whom the love of truth predominates... | |
 | 1906 - 660 páginas
...lack of mental independence? In this connection, it were well to remember Emerson's pregnant words : " God offers to every mind its choice between truth...party he meets — most likely his father's. He gets rest, commodity and reputation ; but he shuts the door of truth. He in whom the love of truth -predominates... | |
 | Ella Lyman Cabot - 1906 - 466 páginas
...every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please, you can never have both. . . . He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept...the first philosophy, the first political party he meets,—most likely his father's. He gets rest, commodity and reputation, but he shuts the door of... | |
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